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What is the difference between food chain and food web? Explain it with suitable examples.

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Food chain Food web
A food chain is a diagram representing the flow of energy from one organism to another. A food web is an interconnected network of food chains that form a multitude of feeding connections among different organisms of a biotic community.
Example: A grasshopper feeds on the leaves of a plant, a frog eats the grasshopper and the frog, in turn, is eaten by a snake. Example: The following diagram shows a food web with many interlinked food chains.

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